If you’re here because you love Halloween, grab a seat and make yourself comfortable. This magazine is just for you. Dive into all things Halloween: literature, music, movies, décor, food and beverages, events, conventions, haunted attractions, and more.
From Candy-Craving Werewolves to Creatures of the Dark: Fawn’s Halloween Soundtrack Returns
Inside the imagination of a songwriter who finds childhood wonder, moonlit magic, and a little delicious fright in the season’s shadows.
Welcome to Plankett’s Grove: Where the Old Stories Still Live
There are places you shouldn’t visit after dark. And yet, somehow, you find yourself walking toward them anyway. Continue reading “Welcome to Plankett’s Grove: Where the Old Stories Still Live”
The First Signs of Halloween
It happens quietly at first.
You open a window late at night, and instead of humid summer air, a cool breeze slips through, carrying just enough of a reminding autumn chill to make you pause. The evenings start pulling in a little earlier. Local flyers for antique shows, craft fairs, and farmer’s markets begin popping up. You spot a solitary Halloween decoration in a neighbor’s window—and smile, realizing you’ve already been secretly eyeing your own boxes in the closet.
The Season of Becoming: Why Halloween Begins Long Before October
We love to hear the terms “Halfway to Halloween” or “Summer-ween,” because both terms provide a sense each year when we feel autumn’s coming arrival — not with a turned calendar page or the overnight appearance of pumpkins in store aisles, but quietly, almost imperceptibly, like a whisper threading through the warm evening air. Continue reading “The Season of Becoming: Why Halloween Begins Long Before October”
Whispers in the Mitten
“Perhaps Michigan is shaped like a mitten because it holds onto things… long after they should be gone. It’s the state that doesn’t let go.”
-Unknown
Isolated within the chilly confines of the Great Lakes, Michigan doesn’t announce its ghost stories. Not loudly, at least. Not in ways that demand attention. It keeps them quietly—in forests, in water, in the spaces where something happened once… and never fully resolved. Continue reading “Whispers in the Mitten”